Tipping Fees to Increase At Foothills Landfill

Thursday, April 16, 2009 03:37 PM

Prince George, B.C.- It will soon be more expensive to drop off certain items at the Foothills Landfill site in Prince George.

The Regional District of Fraser Fort George has approved increasing tipping rates by 4.5%, and increasing rates for “controlled” waste.

The new rates will take effect June 1^st of this year.

Here are the new rates for those “controlled waste items:

Type of Waste	Per unit	Per tonne
Condemned Foods		$100.00
Waste Asbestos		$200.00
Food Processing Waste		$48.00
Bulky Waste		$65.00
Screening from municipal sewage treatment plants and pumping stations		0
Waste sludge from municipal sewage treatment plants and pumping stations		0
Off Road Tires		$100.00
Pumpings from parking lot drainage sumps		$48.00
Pumpings from commercial laundry lint traps		$48.00
Pumpings from sumps which collect run-off from vehicle washing facilities		$48.00
Contaminated Soil		$65.00
Vehicle Hulks		$100.00
Dead Animals		$100.00
Gypsum or Wallboard		$48.00
Appliances containing ozone depleting substances		$15.00
Medium Truck Tires	$7.00

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Posted on Thursday, April 16, 2009 03:37 PM in News by 250 News

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Comments

Posted by: Harbinger on April 16 2009 4:14 PM

Dead animals? Pay the vet to put yer dog down and pay GST. The dead dog arrives at the landfill and the fee is $100. Plus GST. My! Ottawa makes a lot of money on a dead pet.

Posted by: gus on April 16 2009 6:59 PM

Who pays for the dead mice on site?

Posted by: seamutt on April 16 2009 7:02 PM

Appliances containing ozone depleting substances. False cost as it has been proven freon has no effect. The freon issue developed from bad science the same as C02 causing climate change is bad science.

Posted by: socredible on April 16 2009 7:49 PM

Just another tax grab.

Posted by: Ispy on April 16 2009 10:00 PM

It costs more than $100 at the vets to put your dog down.

Posted by: bellaboop on April 16 2009 10:10 PM

Most of the "dead animal" waste that ends up in the landfill is from butcher shops. Its not pets.

Posted by: gus on April 17 2009 4:04 AM

So would that not be food processing waste?

BTW, the table says that the dead animal waste of $100 is a per tonne charge. So my 20 lb dog would then cost $1. Perhaps the table is in error and that should be a per unit charge so that my dead budgie would cost $100 as would my dead horse?

Are we having fun with figures and tables yet?

Once we get our heads around that, what is a medium truck tire? What about the envronmental charge that is on my vehicle tire when I buy it?

Posted by: gus on April 17 2009 4:05 AM

Besides, I don't like fixed tipping fees of 15% or so added. If the service is lousy, I want to be able to tip less.

Posted by: metalman on April 17 2009 7:20 AM

Come on people! How about a dead horse or cow or other large animal? The owner of such animals cannot always dispose of the carcass themselves, such as in the winter when the ground is frozen, it is cheaper to haul it and pay the minimum (the min. used to be $20.00) You would take a cow to the dump if it could not be used for food, or if you do not have the means to haul it into the bush for Ma Nature's clean up crew. I have it on good authority that there is no charge for the dead mice that end up as land fill.
metalman.